1. To read, comprehend, interpret, and respond to essays and poems
2. To relate essays and poems to personal experience
3. To read critically the text
4. To learn the characteristics of Transcendentalism
5. To build vocabulary in context
6. To respond to essays and poems through writing, speaking and listening and projects
1/29/07
Henry David Thoreau objectives:
1) To read, comprehend, and interpret the essays
2) To relate essays to personal experience
3) To read critically by evaluating a writer’s statementof philosophy
4) To build vocabulary in context
5) To write a persuasive essay
6) To respond to the essays through writing, speaking
and listening and projects
Thoreau Background on page 372
Brainstorm instances or laws that one should target with civil disobedience.
1/30/07
“Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.”
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to by one necessary of the soul…
The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the poor man’s house as brightly as from the rich man’s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace. The town’s poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.
In proportion as he simplifies his life,
The laws of the universe will appear less complex,
And solitude will not be solitude
Nor poverty be poverty
Nor weakness weakness
Brainstorm instances or laws that one should target with civil disobedience.
Paraphrase your Henry David Thoreau quote.
Cite two or three examples from today’s world to prove that it is true.
Think about a situation or instance that proves
The quote’s wisdom is not always true
2/5/07
Objectives for week beginning with 2/5
To read, comprehend, and interpret “Civil
Disobedience”
To relate the essay to personal experience
To read critically by evaluating a writer’s statement
of philosophy
To respond to the essay through writing, listening and
Speaking
Finish Henry David Thoreau’s cabin
1) How does the government get in your way?
2) What services does the government provide you?
3) What services should the government provide
that they do not already?
4) What government services should be cut or reduced? 2/6/07
1. Read your children’s book aloud as a group.
2. Identify Henry David Thoreau’s philosophy that is present in the book. Generate a quote to summarize the philosophy in memorable terms. Write it on the board.
3. Write a short summary of the book that you will read to the class 2/9/07
Transcendental Ideas
*People’s lives should be lived simply
*Individuals should appreciate and interact with nature on a regular basis
*People should participate in Civil Disobedience when their government makes and enforces bad laws.
1) Explain how Emily Dickinson was representative of a Transcendentalist. Use specific examples from her poetry.
2) Write down the characteristics of Emily’s poetry
that fit into the New Style.
3) Name the poetic tools that Emily used and give
an example of each.
3/6/07
Transcendentalism Test
• Transcendentalists believed that intuition and the individual conscience “transcend” experience and are better guides to truth than the senses or logical reason.
Translation:
Believed that personal insight and individual awareness are more important to finding the truth than the senses or logical reason.
Example:
John dates Tonisha. Tonisha give John a beautiful shirt for his birthday. Two weeks later Tonisha breaks up with John. John tears the shirt off his back and burns it along with the birthday card.
When John’s sister enters the room and sees the lump of clothing burning, her senses report the physical details/ facts to her.
Using logical reason, John’s sister cannot understand why her brother would burn a nice shirt. She knows about the break up…but still, burning a good shirt makes no sense. He could have given it away to a friend or even sold it. Heck, in two weeks, they might be dating again she thought.
John’s brother, Keith, entered the room and used his personal insights to realize that the burning shirt was a symbol for what Tonisha had given John. Using his individual awareness, Keith accepted the higher truth that this violent action was John’s way of saying he didn’t want anything from Tonisha anymore. Furthermore, Keith observed that this was almost normal, because he had know other boys to practice similar acts.
1. Create a line by line modern translation of your Whitman stanza.
2. Write down an example/line for each of the transcendental practices listed below that you find. There will be a minimum of four per stanza.
• Respected individual spirit/the natural world
• Believed divinity was everywhere
• Highly imaginative view of the world
• Influenced by self-exploration,
• the natural world,
• transcendentalism
• and the development of the United States
• Free Verse
1. To read, comprehend, interpret, and respond to essays and poems
2. To relate essays and poems to personal experience
3. To read critically the text
4. To learn the characteristics of Transcendentalism
5. To build vocabulary in context
6. To respond to essays and poems through writing, speaking and listening and projects
1/29/07
Henry David Thoreau objectives:
1) To read, comprehend, and interpret the essays
2) To relate essays to personal experience
3) To read critically by evaluating a writer’s statementof philosophy
4) To build vocabulary in context
5) To write a persuasive essay
6) To respond to the essays through writing, speaking
and listening and projects
Thoreau Background on page 372
Brainstorm instances or laws that one should target with civil disobedience.
http://www.cyberbee.com/henrybuilds/#
1/30/07
“Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.”
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to by one necessary of the soul…
The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the poor man’s house as brightly as from the rich man’s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace. The town’s poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.
In proportion as he simplifies his life,
The laws of the universe will appear less complex,
And solitude will not be solitude
Nor poverty be poverty
Nor weakness weakness
Brainstorm instances or laws that one should target with civil disobedience.
Paraphrase your Henry David Thoreau quote.
Cite two or three examples from today’s world to prove that it is true.
Think about a situation or instance that proves
The quote’s wisdom is not always true
2/5/07
Objectives for week beginning with 2/5
To read, comprehend, and interpret “Civil
Disobedience”
To relate the essay to personal experience
To read critically by evaluating a writer’s statement
of philosophy
To respond to the essay through writing, listening and
Speaking
Finish Henry David Thoreau’s cabin
1) How does the government get in your way?
2) What services does the government provide you?
3) What services should the government provide
that they do not already?
4) What government services should be cut or reduced?
2/6/07
1. Read your children’s book aloud as a group.
2. Identify Henry David Thoreau’s philosophy that is present in the book. Generate a quote to summarize the philosophy in memorable terms. Write it on the board.
3. Write a short summary of the book that you will read to the class
2/9/07
Transcendental Ideas
*People’s lives should be lived simply
*Individuals should appreciate and interact with nature on a regular basis
*People should participate in Civil Disobedience when their government makes and enforces bad laws.
2/27/07 Transcendental Poetry
3/1/07
Using your power point handout from Tuesday:
1) Explain how Emily Dickinson was representative of a Transcendentalist. Use specific examples from her poetry.
2) Write down the characteristics of Emily’s poetry
that fit into the New Style.
3) Name the poetic tools that Emily used and give
an example of each.
3/6/07
Transcendentalism Test• Transcendentalists believed that intuition and the individual conscience “transcend” experience and are better guides to truth than the senses or logical reason.
Translation:
Believed that personal insight and individual awareness are more important to finding the truth than the senses or logical reason.
Example:
John dates Tonisha. Tonisha give John a beautiful shirt for his birthday. Two weeks later Tonisha breaks up with John. John tears the shirt off his back and burns it along with the birthday card.
When John’s sister enters the room and sees the lump of clothing burning, her senses report the physical details/ facts to her.
Using logical reason, John’s sister cannot understand why her brother would burn a nice shirt. She knows about the break up…but still, burning a good shirt makes no sense. He could have given it away to a friend or even sold it. Heck, in two weeks, they might be dating again she thought.
John’s brother, Keith, entered the room and used his personal insights to realize that the burning shirt was a symbol for what Tonisha had given John. Using his individual awareness, Keith accepted the higher truth that this violent action was John’s way of saying he didn’t want anything from Tonisha anymore. Furthermore, Keith observed that this was almost normal, because he had know other boys to practice similar acts.
1. Create a line by line modern translation of your Whitman stanza.
2. Write down an example/line for each of the transcendental practices listed below that you find. There will be a minimum of four per stanza.
• Respected individual spirit/the natural world
• Believed divinity was everywhere
• Highly imaginative view of the world
• Influenced by self-exploration,
• the natural world,
• transcendentalism
• and the development of the United States
• Free Verse